At least the COMMERCIAL one does...
True that! LOL!
It's too bad that A-Eon still seems headed down the dead-end road of PPC processors. Apple deliberated the switch to x86 years ago for the very same reasons found in the Amiga scene. They didn't want to alienate their hardcore PPC supporters. I wish A-Eon would make the jump to another architecture just as Apple did. It worked for Apple and it will work for Hyperion/A-Eon. Just as Amiga classics hit the end of their lifecycle and moved on to PPC Amigas, it's now time to park the PPC Amigas and move forward once again. What better time to do it? Sure, the hardcore PPC fanatics will whine and moan, but they're obviously not a large enough factor to even keep Hyperion afloat any more.
Continuing to stay the course just to satisfy a shrinking and fanatical PPC customer base is a road to disaster. That's what we're seeing right now with Hyperion. Propping up Hyperion without any real changes in the OS and the hardware will only prolong the inevitable.
A-Eon would be better served to just drop OS4 altogether and go with a flavor of AROS. They could use AROS for the X5000 until a move to another non-PPC architecture is initiated. Having used OS4 on a PegII for a couple years only served to show me what a mess OS4 has become. OS4 is a "Frankenstein's Monster of an OS" and newer features such as USB support seemed to be just quick and bug-filled hacks. And OS4 is also lacking the very basics needed for most businesses to even consider adopting it. There's absolutely no security nor multi-user capabilities.
I'm an IT professional who values his reputation and if I recommended that any of my clients buy an Amiga/OS4, I'd quickly lose that client if I wasn't jeered out of the room first. There's absolutely nothing about OS4 that I can recommend to them, especially when it's tied to a PPC architecture. Even if I argued that they could run Linux on an X1000/X5000, they wouldn't be willing to pay such an exorbitant price for hardware that questionably matches x86 performance from 10 years ago.